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DISK/CTM is very proud to announce the first concert in 32 years of legendary italian prog-rock band Goblin, best known for their congenial collaboration with horror film master Dario Argento. The concert is a coproduction with the reknown Donaufestival in Krems, a small town situated 70 km from Vienna.

Goblin will pe...rform live in an a church from the 13. century. The band will play in the original line-up of 1975 when they released their first record "Profondo Rosso" – except for one change: instead of original member Claudio Simonetti, Aidan Zammit will play keyboards. They will perform a selection of their classic songs and soundtracks – partly with a video component featuring excerpts of Argento's movies – along with material from their 2005 album "Back to the Goblin" and new, yet unreleased pieces.

Afterwards, in the small hall of the festivals main venue, Zombie Zombie and Turzi, both heavily influenced by Goblin's groundbreaking work, pick-up Goblin's legacy to catapult it into todays club culture. Meanwhile, more psychedelic madness – allthough of a slightly different type, drawing more from punk rock and free-form noise – will be curtesy of Black Dice and the Butthole Surfers in the main hall.

A definite must go for all fans ob Goblin, the films of Dario Argento and George A. Romero, and the wide realm that open up between weird psychedelica, prog-rock, italo disco and horror OST's! Mehr lesen

Omar Souleyman, Group Doueh, Sublime Frequencies dj-s, Alan Bishop, Mark Gergis und Hisham Meyet

Sublime Frequencies was founded in 2003 by Alan Bishop, Hisham Mayet, and Richard Bishop. In 5 years the label has produced approaching 50 releases, specialising in sound recordings and films from North Africa, the Middle Ea...st, and Asia, but also extending to other areas including South America and sub-Saharan Africa. The presentation, aesthetic, and approach of Sublime Frequencies sidesteps traditional ethno-musicology, academic protocol and corporate funding, instead documenting the sounds and images of ignored cultural phenomena rich in expressive ideas. The label also challenges the way in which international music and related culture can be sanitised and commodified for a Western audience. Sublime Frequencies presents some of the greatest expressive music in the world with only one agenda in mind: that it needs to be heard or seen, respected and recognised. Always eye-opening and aurally astounding, this Sublime Frequencies tour will certainly be a unique experience.
The tour is all the more exciting as it is the first time either band has toured outside their own countries. Sublime Frequencies will be visiting the bands at home, helping them prepare and making some new recordings and documentations in the process. Nearly the whole label (Alan Bishop, Hisham Mayet and Mark Gergis) will come on the road with them, adding their own creative impulses and artistic work to the tour with film screenings, DJ sets, talks, and limited edition merchandise. The tour is an artist run enterprise and this is how it will be presented.

Group Doueh

Group Doueh are led by the enigmatic guitar hero Bamaar Salmou, who is known simply as ‘Doueh’ (pronounced: ‘Doo-way’). They are from Dakhla, in the Western Sahara. The group’s sound is unlike anything that you’ve ever heard before - rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but one that is also entirely its own. The group share their musical roots with neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music, but have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and avant approach that incorporates a distinctly pop and rock element that is anomalous in the region. This is a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it. This is the sound of the Sahara desert. It is a searing, meditative, and hypnotic modal sandstorm of note clusters that has been cathartic to anyone who has heard it.

Group Doueh have been playing together for over 20 years. The band consists of their leader, Doueh on guitar and tinidit, his wife Halima on vocals and tbal, their son Jamal on organ, and longtime friend Bashiri also on vocals. They had declined several offers from Moroccan, French and Spanish recording labels to release their music. It was not until Sublime Frequencies located them in Dakhla after a long search that Doueh agreed to have his music released for the very first time.

Four People in the group


Omar Souleyman

Omar Souleyman is a musical legend from Syria. For the past 15 years, he and his group have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout the country, having issued more than 500 studio and live-recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city.



Hailing from the rural North Eastern city of Ras Al Ain, Souleyman began his musical career in 1994 with a small group of local collaborators that have been with him from the start. The group tirelessly performs concerts throughout Syria and has accepted invitations to perform abroad in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Lebanon.

The myriad musical traditions of the region are evident in their music, which reflect the sounds of Syia, Iraq, Turkey and the sizeable Kurdish population. The moods swing from coarse and urgent to dirgy and contemplative in the rugged anthems that comprise Souleyman’s repertoire. Expect the ultimate party music as Omar’s superb and varied vocals feature over high-octane Syrian ‘Dabke’ (the regional folkloric dance music) and a host of other styles. Frantic Arabic keyboard solos provided by the incredible Rizan Sa’id intertwine with reeds, stringed instruments and percussion. Mahmoud Harbi, a long-time collaborator and the man responsible for much of the poetry sung by Souleyman accompanies Omar for an unforgettable onstage collaboration as they perform the ‘Ataba’, a traditional form of folk poetry, where Omar’s unaccompanied freestyle ‘mawal’ singing stands in a league of its own.

This is a rare opportunity to take a glimpse into Syrian street-level folk-pop, a phenomenon seldom heard in the West in this form, and rarely, if ever, included on the import agenda of worldwide academic musical committees. Experience the genuine sounds of Syria and the Middle East without the condescending polish and shine of much exported ‘world beat’.

Four People in the band.


Sublime Frequencies DJ Sets

One of a kind DJ set presentations featuring primarily retro 1960’s and 1970’s Hybrid-Pop Rock, Folk Beat, Yeh-Yeh, Go-Go, Freak Beat, Psychedelic Surf and other indigenous styles from North Africa, The Middle East, South and South East Asia. The DJs will sometimes play contemporary music from these regions as well, and occasionally take requests. All of the material played at these DJ sets will be unreleased archival music collected by the DJs unless previously released tracks are requested. So sit back, listen, dance, do as you will and let them saw your head off with the best music you’ve almost assuredly NEVER heard before!

Sublime Frequencies Films
This tour will feature screenings of DVD projects by Sublime Frequencies from their vast archive of visceral and immediate folk cinema shot on location in North Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia. The label has released 8 DVDs and several more films are currently in production. Film lengths generally range between 50 and 85 minutes. Sublime Frequencies are currently filming new footage of the bands on this tour.



Sublime Frequencies Original Mission Statement
Sublime Frequencies is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. Sublime Frequencies is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past.

Useful Links
Sublime Frequencies Website
www.sublimefrequencies.com

Sublime Frequencies - Niger Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZTm5yDz1xI

Sublime Frequencies - Sumatran Folk Cinema Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weI9CNhihTU

Omar Souleyman - ‘Leh Jani’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRUHIeaKOk

Sublime Frequencies - Musical Brotherhoods Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA727eYcO5E
Interview with Alan Bishop
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200807/?read=interview_bishop

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CLUB TRANSMEDIALE.09 – STRUCTURES

club transmediale (CTM), Berlin’s unique festival for electronic and experimental musical culture, invites you to its 10th Anniversary Edition in January 2009.

Expect a magnificent program of concerts and performance in honour of this grand occasion, in which the festival’s long-standing... friends and comrades-in-arms, the best of the season’s newcomers and yet to be discovered talents will all do their utmost to highlight the festival’s status as a forge of international talent and a creative network hub.

New this year will be a daytime program of events in Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, which under the theme STRUCTURES – Backing-up Independent Audio-visual Cultures will address both theoretical and practical aspects of today’s independent and experimental music production at the intersections of pop and sound & media arts. Artists, experts, journalists and theorists will present their work and lectures as a means to pool knowledge and sketch out the sector’s future prospects. Visitors can hone their personal skills in workshops designed to encourage and support DIY experimentation. Selected projects and initiatives will demonstrate what they do in a hybrid formats fusing exhibitions and work-in-progress sessions that engage visitors’ participation. Actions and installations will illustrate further examples of creative output wiring music, art and digital culture.

For the CTM.09 Opening Concert on January 22nd Wolfgang Voigt will perform his legendary ambient project GAS live at Berlin's Volksbuehne Theatre. Mehr lesen